Character Building and Value Education

The life-vein of Value Education is personal constant, co-living, and intimate relationship between elders / teachers and students – Guru-Shishya Sang. Without imbibing from the personal life of a teacher, character-building ideas can never be imbibed. Children in Parivaar are being moulded right from their childhood with elders who are living examples of higher ideals. Certain principles that we follow in child development are based on Swami Vivekananda’s ideal of ‘Manifestation of Divinity Already in Man’:

1. Cultural training and grooming should point out to the infinite self within each person, and not pander to the tastes of Deha-bodha or the ‘lower self’ in man.

2. It should be continuously ingrained within each child / student that each human being has infinite divine nature and the ideal of life is to manifest this in each movement/activity of life. Therefore inward education which can be termed as value-education or character-building has to be imparted by persons of sterling character who are embodiments of spirit of dedication, selflessness and service, and who have infinite capacity of giving love that strengthens one from within.

3. Every child / student should be taught and made to imbibe that Infinite Power is latent in each one of them, the difference is only in manifestation. The power manifests as soon as it gets the opportunity, right place and time. This is what is called ‘Shraddha’ and has to be invoked within all.

4. The education which does not help in individual to equip himself for struggle for life, does not arm a person for facing with strength and equanimity the crises in life is not worth the name.